Entry of Taylor, Childers into House, Senate campaigns raises stakes

5:24 PM,
Mar. 4, 2014

Written by

Sid Salter

The script in Indiana went like this: Tea Party activists decided longtime Indiana Republican U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar "wasn't conservative enough" to suit them and targeted him for defeat in the 2012 Indiana GOP primary.

Lugar was defeated by Tea Party darling Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock thanks in great measure to the out-of-state money pumped into the Mourdock campaign by super PACs (political action committees) Club for Growth, Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks­ - groups that funnel whopping sums of PAC money into attack ads against primarily incumbent ...